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bespue

bespue is the alternative spelling of bespew.

Meaning of bespew

Verb

bespew (third-person singular simple present bespews, present participle bespewing, simple past and past participle bespewed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To stain with spew; vomit on; foul with sick.
    • In that a Snayl or Dodman, vvhich is not only not vvarm, but to our feeling, very cold, is fain to brood its as cold svveatty eggs, neſted upon a cold vvet earth, beſpievving them about vvith the fuzze of a cold clammy froth, in coldish [d]raughty vveather, and all making vvay to a kind and timely...1674, N[athaniel] Fairfax, chapter V, in A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World. Wherein the Greatness, Littleness and Lastingness of Bodies are Freely Handled. […], London: […] Robert...

Forms of bespue

third-person singular presentbespues
present participlebespuing
past participlebespued
pastbespued

Questions about bespue

What is bespue the alternative spelling of?
Bespue is the alternative spelling of bespew.

Words near bespue in the dictionary

  1. besprinkled
  2. besprinkler
  3. besprinklers
  4. besprinkles
  5. besprinkling
  6. bespue
  7. bespurred
  8. bespurt
  9. bespurted
  10. bespurting
  11. bespurts

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